Power outage history
Pocahontas County West Virginia
28hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
13th most of 55 in West Virginia 4.3× the national median
Every day since 2015
Eleven years, one night at a time
Each cell is a day. The brighter it is, the larger the share of Pocahontas's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.
Year by year
Hours in the dark, per customer
2025 was the worst well-recorded year, at 47 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Pocahontas, hours without power per customer
The record
The biggest outages since 2015
Ranked by customer-hours lost: customers out multiplied by how long they stayed out. Times are local.
| Began | Storm | Peak out | Share | Lasted | 90% restored | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 23, 2016 | Thunderstorms | 4,599 | 100% | 4.5 d | 3.2 d | 246k |
| Jul 14, 2015 | No storm report | 4,599 | 100% | 41 h | 18 h | 102k |
| Feb 24, 2019 | Windstorm | 2,446 | 53% | 3.4 d | 2.1 d | 62k |
| Feb 6, 2025 | Flooding | 2,244 | 49% | 2.7 d | 33 h | 53k |
| Mar 1, 2017 | Thunderstorms | 4,599 | 100% | 2.3 d | 32 h | 47k |
| Apr 8, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 4,089 | 89% | 46 h | 12 h | 39k |
| Oct 19, 2015 | No storm report | 4,599 | 100% | 7.8 h | 7.8 h | 34k |
| Jun 16, 2022 | Thunderstorms | 1,357 | 30% | 45 h | 24 h | 34k |
| Nov 15, 2018 | Ice storm | 2,189 | 48% | 26 h | 12 h | 32k |
| Jul 29, 2017 | No storm report | 2,566 | 56% | 10 h | 10 h | 26k |
| May 13, 2025 | No storm report | 1,348 | 29% | 21 h | 17 h | 25k |
| Jun 13, 2022 | No storm report | 1,526 | 33% | 29 h | 5.5 h | 24k |
| Aug 25, 2015 | No storm report | 3,150 | 68% | 7.0 h | 4.5 h | 20k |
| Feb 17, 2015 | No storm report | 2,768 | 60% | 9.2 h | 3.2 h | 20k |
| Apr 11, 2023 | No storm report | 3,007 | 65% | 7.0 h | 7.0 h | 19k |
| Apr 13, 2024 | No storm report | 4,550 | 99% | 17 h | 7.0 h | 17k |
| Apr 1, 2023 | Windstorm | 3,395 | 74% | 22 h | 13 h | 15k |
| Jul 25, 2016 | No storm report | 4,196 | 91% | 3.8 h | 3.2 h | 15k |
| Apr 29, 2021 | No storm report | 1,737 | 38% | 9.5 h | 6.5 h | 14k |
| Feb 17, 2018 | Winter storm | 1,578 | 34% | 20 h | 11 h | 14k |
| Jun 30, 2016 | No storm report | 4,599 | 100% | 5.2 h | 1.8 h | 13k |
| Sep 27, 2024 | No storm report | 1,073 | 23% | 2.0 d | 23 h | 13k |
| May 7, 2017 | No storm report | 4,599 | 100% | 4.0 h | 3.0 h | 13k |
| Mar 31, 2021 | No storm report | 1,304 | 28% | 9.8 h | 9.5 h | 13k |
| Jun 26, 2024 | No storm report | 2,076 | 45% | 23 h | 3.0 h | 12k |
| Nov 25, 2015 | No storm report | 2,524 | 55% | 4.8 h | 9.0 h | 12k |
| Jul 28, 2023 | No storm report | 389 | 8% | 46 h | 40 h | 11k |
| Dec 19, 2015 | No storm report | 2,520 | 55% | 4.5 h | 4.5 h | 11k |
| Jan 16, 2024 | Winter storm | 3,300 | 72% | 8.5 h | 5.8 h | 11k |
| May 1, 2017 | No storm report | 986 | 21% | 26 h | 19 h | 10k |
After the peak
How fast the lights come back
Each line is one major outage, from its peak. The amber line is the typical path.
When it happens
The outage clock
Customer-hours out by month (rings, January innermost) and local hour, 2018–2025.
What was happening
Weather behind the outages
Each outage is matched to NOAA storm reports for Pocahontas from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- No storm on record 63%
- Thunderstorms 11%
- Windstorm 10%
- Flooding 5.8%
- Winter storm 4.8%
- Ice storm 3.3%
- Tropical storm 1.3%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Pocahontas
As each utility reports to the Energy Information Administration for its whole West Virginia territory, not this county alone. Outage minutes include major storm days.
| Utility | Type | Outage min / yr | Excl. major storms | Outages / yr | Residential ¢/kWh | Customers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monongahela Power Co | Investor Owned | 1,250 | 553 | 3.72 | 14.3 | 334k |
EIA Form 861, latest year each utility reported. Outage minutes are SAIDI, the yearly minutes the average customer goes without power; outages a year are SAIFI.
Next door
Neighbouring counties
- Webster 46 h
- Highland, VA 32 h
- Pocahontas (this county) 28 h
- Bath, VA 25 h
- Pendleton 24 h
- Greenbrier 17 h
- Randolph 7.5 h
About these numbers
Notes
Outages come from the EAGLE-I record of utility outage maps collected every 15 minutes by Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Hours without power are customer-hours divided by the county's 4,599 electricity customers. Averages use well-covered years from 2018. Outages shorter than 15 minutes, and utilities that publish no outage map, are not in the record, so these figures understate the total. How every number is made →